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From: Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+linux@sardemff7.net>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: inotify/sysfs
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:50:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53342CA0.905@sardemff7.net> (raw)

Hello,

In GIO (GLib), the GFileMonitor[1] mechanism is using inotify for local 
files. To detect file creation and some other weird cases, they monitor 
the directory of the file and not the file directly (see 
get_basename/get_dirname[2] usage).

With sysfs, it does not work as expected for some reason.

 From a quick discussion of IRC with GLib folks, it appears that it 
would be better fixed in sysfs directly.

Would such a patch be accepted and if so, could I have some hints to 
where I should start hacking to fix that?

Thanks,

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/gio/unstable/GFileMonitor.html
[2] 
https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/gio/inotify/ginotifyfilemonitor.c#n82

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Quentin “Sardem FF7” Glidic
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             reply	other threads:[~2014-03-27 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-27 13:50 Quentin Glidic [this message]
2014-03-28 17:07 ` inotify/sysfs Jan Kara
2014-03-29  6:25   ` inotify/sysfs Greg KH
2014-03-31 18:52 ` inotify/sysfs Al Viro
2014-03-31 19:13   ` inotify/sysfs Linus Torvalds
2014-03-31 20:00     ` inotify/sysfs Al Viro
2014-03-31 20:10       ` inotify/sysfs Linus Torvalds

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